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Friday, January 06, 2012

It's an Obama world, and any criticism or mockery of them is deemed racist by a panting sycophantic lapdog media.

Such as this satirical photo below, that appeared at Gateway Pundit.

Anyone who has half a brain can see that this photo is mockery of Moochelle Obama, who flies around on the taxpayer dime like some Marie Antionette while many families cannot afford a vacation.

But the LA Slimes, egged on by Media Mutters (funded the Left's sugar daddy George Soro$), sees RAAAAACISM in this photo.

A baldly racist depiction of First Lady Michelle Obama that appeared Tuesday on a right-wing website is based on a 1775 portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty (1740-1786). The full-length painting hangs outside Paris in the Palace of Versailles.

The Internet image grafts Obama's face onto Gautier-Dagoty's lavish depiction of the French queen, dressed in full regalia. It also replaces the draped left arm of the young monarch, then barely 20, with a muscular black arm and shifts the position of the right hand to place it in front of a world globe.

The caricature of Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an "uppity Negro," which emerged among slave masters in an earlier American era. Obama, born into a working-class Chicago family whose roots are traced to the pre-Civil War South, graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, prior to holding several high-level positions in the academic and private sectors.

The racist image appeared Tuesday on the right-wing blog Gateway Pundit; the slur was later called out by Media Matters for America. A post by Gateway blogger Jim Hoft paired the picture with a clip of the first lady's guest appearance on a forthcoming episode of "iCarly," a Nickelodeon sit-com. In the script, Obama commends the cast for their support of military families. Responding to a cast member who mistakenly addresses her as "your excellency," the script has Obama jokingly reply, "I kinda like it."

The doctored painting also turned up in August 2010 on the right-wing Instapundit website, where it apparently originated.

So who's reading this photoshop as Moochelle being an "uppity Negro?" The LA Slimes and Media Mutters, that's who! The same LA Slimes that Jim Hoft points out printed a 2007 story calling Richard Milhous Obama "the magic negro" and inspired this classic Paul Shanklin parody on the Rush Limbaugh Show.